Stephen M. Rice

Stephen M. Rice is a founding partner of Rice Reuther Sullivan & Carroll LLP. Rice practices primarily the areas of real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings, venture formation and general real estate development matters. Rice also serves as general counsel to Basic Management Inc. and its affiliated companies, one of the largest landowners in the Las Vegas Valley. He was previously a partner with the law firm of Jones Vargas in Las Vegas and was associated with the firm of Gilchrist & Rutter in Los Angeles.

Rice is a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. He also received an LLM (taxation) from the University of San Diego, graduating summa cum laude. Rice is a member of the bars of Nevada, California and Texas.

Rice is an AV Pre-eminent Peer Review rated (5.0 out of 5.0) attorney by Martindale-Hubbell and has been ranked as one of the leading real estate lawyers in Nevada by Chambers USA since 2002, included in The Best Lawyers in America Real Estate since 2006, and one of the Mountain States Super Lawyers since 2009.

These are some of the reasons that we named Rice to our Pheonix & Southwest grouping of Lawyers in Real Estate. These are real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in both their practice and the larger community.